leaf

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27780029

Hello everybody! I want to escape Microsoft and windows, and I am looking for a Linux distro. I have some experience with Unix and a very old Ubuntu distro. But that's quite some years ago. I am looking for a Linux distribution where i can play World of Warcraft on. I mainly use Nvidia graphics (RTX 3070).

I have found some distributions that are supposed to be good for gaming. I suppose, as i am still a Linux Noob, I am also looking for a distribution which is easy to get into. Especially for an older gamer ;)

I came with these distro's myself. What does the Linux community say?

Bazzite

Developer: Universal Blue (US?)

Drauger OS

Pop!_OS

Developer: system76 (Denver, US)

SteamOS -based on Debian 8 (Jessie) -designed to run steam and steam games -set to auto update their OS from Valve repo's https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

Developer: Valve (US)

Manjaro -based on Arch (rolling release model for latest software/drivers) -KDE plasma desktop (Pro-tip: enable flatpak and install ProtonUp-QT) https://manjaro.org/products

Developer: Majaro (EU - Austria, France, Germany)

Ubuntu: -the go-to linux distro for millions of users, incl gamers -best for beginners and gamers who want stable well supported distro -works seamlesssly with steam, lutris, wine (pro-tip: install the gamemode package (sudo apt install gamemode)) https://ubuntu.com/download

Developer: Canonical ltd. (UK)

Nobara -based on Fedora -optimized for gaming on newer Nvidia graphics (drivers come installed) https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/

Developer: Thomas Crider (Denver, US)

Mint -based on debian and Ubuntu -friendly OS, works out of the box, extremely easy to use https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Developer : Linuxmint (French, Dutch, UK)

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your advice is very welcome here! Your guidance will help folks meet their goals much more easily ❤️

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No problem. We’re going to rebuild everything we lost with Reddit and the work will be much better preserved as the standards here are much more open!

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I appreciate your support. You’re doing a great job in steering the mothership!

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can a single instance handle a community of 100k members? Can this one? What's the limit?

The theoretical limit depends on the server hardware behind the instance.

There's an incredible amount of hate and chasers on reddit, and if you had to rely on manual moderation I don't think anyone could cope. You may not be seeing it here because Lemmy is smaller, not as well know, and appears to be a bit harder to use and keeps out the idiots. The sub moderation is part of it, with lots of automated filtering (which is why the people from Lemmy were having trouble posting in the sub), but the site also keeps them suppressed. When it didn't it was really bad.

The admins of Blahaj.Zone are strict with those kinds of messed up individuals. Lemmy instances often defederate from the troll farms like Hexbear for example. It’s a lot harder for trolls and chasers to organize in this bloc of instances for example as the mods/admins are very on top of things. They use the tool fediseer to check out if an instance is trustworthy enough for their users/communities to interact with ours.

I agree with you that the moderating tools on Lemmy could be better but as more people switch to this platform the higher the demand would be for developers to upgrade the tools to be more robust. They have come a long way from 2023.

When Reddit killed almost all the third-party apps a lot of moderating and accessibility features were forever lost due to the company’s decision to charge outrageous fees for api access but not only that but they adamantly refused to work with developers who extended an hand to work out a deal within the new limits.

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago

They’re in California so there’s some buffer against that. Hopefully they have a contingency plan to move the operations to Ireland or some other full democracy. You can also download all the information through Kiwix.

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 5 months ago

This is why Elon Musk has been whining about it so much.

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Time to download all of it!

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Russia is in deep trouble!

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

There's so many Andy bootlickers in that subreddit. I'm glad I quit Reddit.

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

Regan started the rot for the working class

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Ukraine should start using the P.

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Tankies support the more problematic empires such as Russia and China.

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